Bowers & Wilkens has just announced the release of their new
spherical shaped subwoofer. The PV1 Pressure Vessel Subwoofer breaks
ground from all previous designs with a unique, spherical enclosure and
all-new driver and amplifier concepts.
“The PV1 doesn’t
look like any other subwoofer, and its performance is equally
uncommon,” says B&W Loudspeakers Executive Vice President Chris
Browder.
At the same time, the B&W industrial design moves the subwoofer
from its traditional dark corner to pride of place, front and center,
in today’s new-tech, “lifestyle” AV systems.

Polk
Audio has just announced the introduction of the new LSiW high
performance powered subwoofer. It features patented Polk Audio
technologies and features for home theater and music performance.
The LSiW features dual 10" drivers with high roll surrounds and 2 inch
voice coils mounted on opposing 1" thick MDF baffles. The top, bottom,
front and back panels of the enclosure are finished in black high gloss
laminate and the side panels are finished in either Cherry or
Ebony-finish wood veneer. The cabinet finishes, overall industrial
design and high-end performance of the LSiW match the rest of Polk’s
LSi Series loudspeakers.

Britain’s
B&W Loudspeakers has been creating active subwoofers almost since
the powered-sub concept has existed. The UK company has a long history
of designing for powerful levels of genuine deep bass. The latest
models to advance this tradition are B&W’s new 15-inch ASW-850 and
12-inch ASW-800. These new powered subs, technically identical but for
driver and cabinet sizes, combine massive, 1,000-watt (continuous)
audio power with newly developed transducers to produce more intense,
dynamic, ultra-deep bass than any preceding B&W subwoofer.
“We’re locked in an arms race with the purveyors of music and,
especially, movie-soundtrack productions,” says B&W Loudspeakers
Executive Vice President Chris Browder, “And I’m only half joking.
Big-production filmsound’s ability to incorporate awesome bass effects
has grown steadily throughout the home-theater boom, and
sound-designers have raised the low-end ante considerably over just the
past few years. Not to worry: These new subs give us the upper hand
with headroom, slam, and bottom-octaves extension to spare.”

B&W has just announced the release of their new $1,600 ASW-CDM subwoofer. The ASW-CDM features an ultra-high-output 12-inch long-throw driver, a compact size of 15 x 15 x 20 inches and a 1000 watt dedicated amplifier co-designed by Philips of the Netherlands.